[ipxe-devel] some problem when initial devices in ipxe.efi

[Jarrod Johnson]

Was this chain booted or booted from ISO?  In the latter, that doesn't
quite work at the moment (it assumes the device that was used to boot ipxe
was the snp device desired)


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Jarron,
> I have tested today with your patch, and build snponly.efi, but it seems
> not recognized my nics.
> >>>
> xCAT Network Boot Agent
> iPXE 1.0.3-130715(f411d) -- Open source ..
> Features: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP EFI
> No more network devices
> xNBA initialising devices... ok
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Jarrod Johnson <
> jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Meant to post to list.  In short, snponly.efi can be chainloaded from a
>> PXE boot in UEFI as an application (
>> https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/shortlog)  It has a patch not
>> yet accepted into ipxe main.
>>
>> However, you mentioned going from .iso.  That needs an extra step.
>>  Either an intermediate loader to switch around the loaded image handle
>> prior to execution, or a patch to ipxe shoring up it's support for non-IPXE
>> SNP drivers to go beyond loaded image.  I had been hoping to get to the
>> latter, but a combination of not having enough time or intelligence has
>> gotten in the way.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, don't notice to list. :-）
>>> Thanks Robin
>>>
>>> Hello Guys,
>>> If I want to use ipxe in EFI mode, any easy way to built one? Now, I
>>> have ipxe.efi, snponly,efi, snpnet.efi, 80861521.efi, (my nic is intel
>>> e1000, 8086/1521),  but it cannot detect that NIC.
>>> Robin said we can use as EFI driver, Iwant to know how to execute it.
>>> Any documentation?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> yixuan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know. Please keep the conversation on the list, not in private.
>>>>
>>>> Most likely some of the other people on the list can answer that. I also
>>>> believe it's been answered before. Don't remember when. Check the
>>>> mailing-list archives.
>>>>
>>>> -- Robin
>>>>
>>>> On 10.07.2013 12:22, Yixuan Huang wrote:
>>>> > hello Robin,
>>>> > Thanks for your information.
>>>> > But if I want to launch from uefi shell, how can I do? Any
>>>> documentation
>>>> > in ipxe.org <http://ipxe.org>?
>>>> > And do you know if ipxe support as app in the furture?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Eugene
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > yixuan
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no
>>>> > <mailto:robin at smidsrod.no>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >     iPXE as an UEFI app doesn't yet work. You'll need to load it as a
>>>> driver
>>>> >     or rom, AFAIK.
>>>> >
>>>> >     -- Robin
>>>> >
>>>> >     On 10.07.2013 09 <tel:10.07.2013%2009>:56, Yixuan Huang wrote:
>>>> >     > when I used snponly.efi, (make bin-x86-64/snponly.efi) same
>>>> issue.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     > Thanks,
>>>> >     > yixuan
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Yixuan Huang <
>>>> yixuan178 at gmail.com
>>>> >     <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com>
>>>> >     > <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     Hello,
>>>> >     >     I built ipxe.efi in my rhel6.4 platform with git clone that
>>>> latest
>>>> >     >     code level.
>>>> >     >     And I enable ftp/https protocols.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     my system is ibm x3650m4, last time when i used pre-build
>>>> binary
>>>> >     >     ipxe.iso,
>>>> >     >     network cards can be set and http can work.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     But this time, it seems no nic worked. i first boot from
>>>> >     uefi-shell,
>>>> >     >     then run ipxe.efi.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     screen like following:
>>>> >     >     ipxe 1.0.0+(9361) ...
>>>> >     >     Features: FTP HTTP HTTPS DNS TFTP EFI Menu
>>>> >     >     No more network devices
>>>> >     >     iPXE initialsing device...
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     it will hang...
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     question:
>>>> >     >     * how can i build other nic drivers or which one can support
>>>> >     all nics?
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     Thanks,
>>>> >     >     yixuan
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >
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